Category Archives: Three Word Wednesday
Election Questions
Will it prove fatal to get out and vote?
What if there is no harmonious note
In the election that’s surely to come?
Will I be gaping and feeling quite dumb?
© 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Suffrage”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Fatal, Gaping, Harmonious”
Funeral
seamless in mourning—
the only child’s funeral
beginning at noon
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radical sendoff—
for his daughter’s funeral
a fireworks display
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pathetic mourners
after the child’s funeral
stumbling to their homes
© 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Three Word Wednesday: “Pathetic, Radical, Seamless”
Landscape
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
A greasy residue in this hellish landscape ignites her anger.
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over the mountain
conspiracies of ravens
plotting their next moves
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Haiku Horizons: “Over”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Greasy, Hellish, Ignite”
Lantern Festival
lantern festival—
the empty one in her hand
giving off no light
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lantern festival—
certain that the others’ light
will guide her footsteps
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evening festival—
hillsides absorbing the light
from ten thousand lamps
© 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Lantern Festival”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Empty, Certain, Absorb”
Pine
Pine tree, Japanese Friendship Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
Where in the new year
will I find a resting place—
beneath an old pine?
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In my thoughtless state
not even new year’s prospects
can enlarge my soul.
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too much alcohol
ushering in the new year—
my woozy footsteps
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to the left and right
as the new year approaches
uptight suspicions
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “New Year”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Thoughtless, Uptight, Woozy”
Funeral
a sedate cortege—
the only child’s funeral
beginning at noon
~~ ~~ ~~
a righteous sendoff—
the little girl’s funeral
after morning rain
~~ ~~ ~~
pathetic mourners
after the child’s funeral
stumbling to their homes
© 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Haiku Horizons: “After”
More Sunday Scribblings 2: “Funeral”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Pathetic, Righteous, Sedate”
Door
Weathered door, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
from under the door
a harp’s labored strains leaking
onto the sidewalk
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haphazard music
sounding behind the closed door—
tuba, harp and drums
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noxious vapors flee
at the sound of harp and lyre—
the old door trembles
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Ruby Tuesday Too
More Carpe Diem: “Harp/Lyre”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Haphazard, Labored, Noxious”
Three Tiny Tales
a wounded dolphin
trying to swim to safety—
the wound proves fatal
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on a parade float
the faintest glimmer of light
from a yellow rose
~~ ~~ ~~
impartial jury—
the prisoner’s only hope
for clearing his name
© 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Dolphin”
More Haiku Horizons: “Float”
More A Week for Writing: “Hope”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Fatal, Glimmer, Impartial”
Elastic Words
Her sighing deeply
makes passing beggars wonder
why there aren’t more clouds.
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for writing poems
handfuls of elastic words
stretched across the page
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a world made of wind—
how dull and unamusing
for lovers of words
© 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Three Word Wednesday: “Amusing, Deeply, Elastic”
River
Animas River, Aztec, New Mexico
midsummer morning
the river unraveling
on its seaward way
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Rampant grow the tales
whispered by the willow trees
at the river’s edge.
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echoes of a crow
still menacing the river
ninety yards downstream
Text © 2015 and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Wednesday Waters #22
More Carpe Diem: “White Nile”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Menacing, Rampant, Unravel”
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